Identification of the Information Needs of a Nurse-led RapidResponse Team to Design and Develop an Electronic MedicalRecord System

Introduction: this study aimed to identify the essential information needs in the rapidresponse team (rrt) electronic records of hospitals.methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 71 rrt members of abu alisina organ transplant center in shiraz, iran. data were collected using a researcher-madequestionnaire by trained researchers. descriptive (mean, frequency and percentage) andanalytic (mann whitney u and kruskal wallis) statistics were used to analyze the data.result: the three data elements with the highest mean scores were blood pressure (4.8),heart rate (4.7), and respiratory rate (4.6). among the top ten data elements according tonursing supervisor “investigations (most recent chest x-ray)”, “investigations (ef)”, and“investigations (pulmonary function test)”; according to head nurse “investigations (ef)”,“laboratory (arterial blood gas)” and “laboratory (hb)”; and according to rrt icu nurse“laboratory (hb)”, “laboratory (o2 saturation)” and “laboratory (k)” were the mostimportant data elements. also, by opening the rrt registered anesthesia nurse, “physiology(bp)”, “physiology (rr)”, and “physiology (body temperature)” were the most important dataelements. there was a statistically significant difference between different clinical roles inthe relationship between important data elements (p<0.05). also, there was a statisticallysignificant difference between the registered group of rrt anesthesia nurses and otherclinical role groups (p<0.008).conclusion: the identified information needs in this study can be used to inform thedevelopment and design of user-centered emrs for nurse-led rrts.